Posted on 08/14/2017 2:15:49 PM PDT by richardb72
In Sundays New York Times, Kristen Ghodsee paints a glowing picture of womens lives in the former Soviet Union. From full voting rights in 1917, liberalized divorce laws, high labor force participation and yes, reportedly better sex life was supposedly much better for women. Ghodsee writes, Although the Communists never fully reformed domestic patriarchy, Communist women enjoyed a degree of self-sufficiency that few Western women could have imagined.
Of course, full voting rights dont count for very much when there is always only one candidate allowed on the ballot.
But there is a more fundamental problem with Ghodsees argument. Totalitarian governments have gone to great lengths to indoctrinate children, and the biggest obstacles to that goal were parents. The way to overcome this problem was to take women away from their children by encouraging or forcing them into the work force. Making divorce easy also weakened the institution of the family.
As former Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Time David Shipler discovered, during the 1920s and 1950s, the Soviet Union even experimented with raising children in communal childrens houses, dining halls, and other institutions that would decrease the importance of the individual household. During the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the Soviet government forcibly took tens of thousands of three- and four-year-old Afghanis to the USSR so that they would be raised away from their families. The hope was to later return them to Afghanistan, where they might form the core of a loyal government administration.
The former Soviet Union viewed children as the property of the state and they were actively encouraged to criticize, expose, and reform parents possessing insufficient revolutionary ideals.
But there are more subtle ways of achieving this without forcibly removing children from their homes. . . .
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I fail to see how they’ve “improved” it...the worst I ever had was wonderful.
The workers controlled the means of seduction.
Ghodsee needs a good hard lesson by sending her to one of these places to live.
Like the baby boom 9 months after the power outages in New York City.
My next door neighbor did the Russian bride thing. She was tall, spoke English well and very polite. They had three kids and are still married after 15 years.
There are always exceptions, but usually they require lots of money. My friend with an MBA from Wharton School of Business hasn’t had any problems with his Russian bride either.
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